I Want to Buy a Business – Home-Based Business Ideas. Have you ever thought about working from home? Have you dreamt of being your own boss? Do you wish you had the freedom to manage your own schedule and work from any location?

Top 10 Tips for Home-Based Success - It’s not just millennials who are working remotely—more and more baby boomers are making the switch from the 9am-5pm office routine to the flexible home-based work life.

Home Sales Business Opportunities - It’s Time to Take Charge of Your Financial Future - The election is over. Whatever else it brings, you can be sure there will be changes, many of which will have an impact on the marketplace and your money picture.

Entrepreneurs, Mompreneurs, Daughterpreneurs, Dadpreneurs, Sonpreneurs, in many cases, working-from-home can create the best of both worlds. You can work at home and be with your family at the same time. Sometimes you can mix these two elements of your life so seamlessly that you often don’t know if...

Working from home is easier said than done, I know from personal experience. How about you? Do you want the freedom of running your own business from home? Are you wondering how to bridge the profitably gap? Do you need money to pay the bills until it gets profitable? This conundrum stops many entrepreneur-wannabes...

Whatever the decade, family bills have always been a source of stress. Women have added their efforts to add to the family income while caring for children and the home.
That’s still a fact today. But the opportunities available and the...

Home-Based Franchises - A full third of the companies on Entrepreneur Magazine’s popular Franchise 500 list for 2014 were home-based. It shows how strong is the lure of escaping the cubicle and working from the kitchen table or coffee shop.
There is a wide range to choose from in the home-based

Ever thought of working from home and breaking free of the office, the commute, the spilled coffee, angry drivers and make your own schedule? Major changes have come to how Americans work.
Consider these statistics:

Home based business opportunities have increased quite dramatically since the inception of the Internet. According to recent statistics, there are over 38 million home-based businesses in the United States alone. 70% of these home based businesses succeed within 3 years of its start-up (as compared to...

Working from home, telecommuting, owning a home-based business, operating as a freelancer from your home and taking outside meetings too is the dream of just about every cube jockey this way of the Pacific Ocean. Working at home can be a truly productive experience. The more you know about how you...

Business Opportunities and Sundays go so well together. Sit down, get whatever libation you love and kick back to research what of opportunity might be right for you. Try to match your skill set, background, comfort zone and any additional parameters you can set for yourself to ascertain which might...

The earliest instances of 'work-from-home' that a Google Books search turns up use the phrase to mean "work away from home."
Thus, for example, in The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts, we find this provision (enacted in September 1634) "relating to...

While wearing whatever you want is certainly a perk that many owners of work-at-home business opportunities and other small businesses enjoy, it may not be such a good idea to make wearing your jammies a habit. That’s according to expert advice from Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, authors of...

If you’re looking for assurance that you can work from home and have some semblance of control over your day-to-day schedule as well as your financial future, owning your own home-based business opportunity,

At least one in five businesses of any size encounter some sort of disruption to their customers each year, costing millions of dollars in lost time and therefore money. As a result, thousands of home-based business opportunity,...

If you are a home-based business opportunity, franchise or other small business owner, then you know how hard it can be to stay motivated day in and day out, especially if you’re a one-person shop with no one else around to keep you on track. You know how easy it is to get distracted or feel rudderless...

Each year, Entrepreneur magazine’s annual top 500 report reveals the most successful franchises using the following criteria: financial strength, business stability, growth rate and size, number of years in operation, number of years offering franchising, start-up costs, litigation, percentage...

If you are a home-based small business owner, you’re in good company. In fact, at no time in history have there been more work-at-home business people than there are today. According to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, 13.4 million people work at home now. That’s an increase of 41%...

There’s a big difference between a work-at-home scam and a legitimate business opportunity that enables you work from a home office, using it as your primary base of operations. Unfortunately, the number of phony schemes that would easily fall under the former heading is growing exponentially, largely...

Working from home, whether operating your own business or partnering with a business opportunity or franchise, your personal and professional lives are virtually interchangeable in the minds of many. Furthermore, chances are good that you’re running a one-man or one-woman operation. If you do have staff,...

You don’t have to be following a yellow brick road or falling down a rabbit hole to wish you were home. Being at home can easily include your work life. In 2011, more than 34 million people worked at least part of the time from home. Becoming a home-based travel agent is a great way to join that growing...

While school-age kids look forward to summer all year long, many of us work-at-home parents have a sense of dread when the year is over. I don’t know about you, but three months of figuring out how to keep my kids busy while I get my job done is no easy task.

Owning your own small business and working from home comes with its share of perks, that’s for sure. But being able to wiggle out of writing a business plan is not one of them. The fact is that any business owner with a prayer of success has to have more than just a sense of how they are going to succeed...

Owning your own home-based or other small business, business opportunity or franchise can be a hugely rewarding experience. But it’s also a lot of hard work and can present its own set of challenges, especially for parents who have young children.
Any parent who has tried to work from home with kids...

The start of summer can be a really stressful time of year for a particular group of people―home-based business owners. Why? At the risk of stating the obvious―the kids are around, the weather’s nice, everyone’s off their usual routine… Shall I continue? All the distractions you’re not used to having...

More of us work from home than ever before. And although most of us spend a considerable amount of time and money keeping our homes looking nice and comfortable, that doesn’t always translate to our home offices. In fact, it’s a good bet that relatively few of us give much thought to our home office...

If you are a home-based or other small or even a medium-sized business owner, you may not have or want all the trappings of an actual office, one that would be suitable for client meetings or that requires you to pay rent or invest in upkeep. At the same time, you may need or want to hold client or...

A 2010 survey by Microsoft found employees believe that less than 50 percent of their employers are supportive of their working from somewhere other than the office, such as from home. Their perception is supported by the fact that well over half (59%) of them report their company has no formal work-at-home...

There once was a time when working from home was not only unusual, but it was called just that―working from home. Okay, there were and are other buzzword phrases that refer to the same concept, such as home-based business owner or work-at-home business or, if appropriate, even consultant or...

If the first decade of the 21st century has taught us anything it’s that the only constant in life is change. The technological, environmental, demographic and financial changes of the last ten years have been significant and are driving a tremendous amount of political debate, that’s for...

If you’re the entrepreneurial type, the American Dream is to have a business of your very own. You may want to create or purchase a business opportunity, distributorship, licensee opportunity or small franchise that can be run right out of your home. Any one of these options is attractive for a number...

I used to travel at least five days a week, and when I saw the movie ‘Up in the Air’ recently I had to reminisce. The character played by George Clooney was much like me once upon a time. Unfortunately, back in the day when technology hadn’t caught up yet, I too found myself in planes, on trains or...

If you’re establishing a work-at-home business or a home office to run a computer-based business opportunity you will need a few basics to get you started and keep you pointed in the right direction to grow your budding business.
Here are the basics you will need to get started:

If you’ve been one of the unfortunate people that signed up for a home-based business opportunity, distributorship, licensee opportunity or even a small franchise only to NOT see the success you were sold on, I feel for you; however, you’re not alone. I have some tips for you to possibly revive that...

You can certainly run a franchise opportunity from the comfort of your home office. The trend has been on the rise in the past few years. Home-based franchising will continue to grow as many are discovering that working from home can be just as effective as working from an office environment each day.
Think...

Working at home and owning a home-based business opportunity are two very different things. A “work-at-home-based business” is really a telecommuting job that you would do if you were in a corporate office. You’re still working...

Truth is, I am still looking for a work-at-home employment opportunity that I could feature in this piece which charges a fee. The main problem I found is that no true work-at-home business opportunity requires you to pay money for the privilege of getting a job. You would not go into an interview and...

If you have a home-based business as well as kids, then you face a challenge. Often it seems like a great idea to open a home-based business opportunity so that you can stay home with your kids. If you are running a business, you certainly don’t want to bring a screaming child into the office with you....

Did you know that home-based businesses account for more than half of all U.S. businesses? Did you know that home-based businesses employ more people than venture-backed companies in the U.S.? These are home-based businesses that are dismissed as insignificant operations, or even called "hobbyists",...

If you don’t know how to track your existing website traffic, you’re missing out on a critical marketing element that can aid you in many ways, not the least of which is sales. You can turn visitors into customers using a few easy tools. You just need to know what they are and how to apply them.
The...

Do You Want To Work From Home But Don’t Know Where To Start? Seems like this is where many start their business franchise home-based opportunity shopping. One of the most common mistakes for all aspiring home-based business...

Starting a home-based business requires passion, time, money, faith, and a lot of hard work. It is not an easy thing to do and success is not a given. However, there are certain practices that can help your home based-business be successful. Whether you want to grow into a worldwide, multi-million dollar...

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I had the pleasure of chatting with Shawn Pigg, CEO of Hotels Etc. for BusinessOpportunity.com's Podcast series that will be released very soon on our new Digital Platform. Here is the transcript from that call for our regular RSS feed subscribers who get all of our posts first.